V/A - Psufi

[Guest Scalar]

V/A - Psufi

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Psufi

Label: Electric Orgasm

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. Aether : Axis Seclusion

02. Kadet : Bali Mi Conga

03. Defonic : Dimorphodon

04. Process : 10000 Thrill Seekers

05. Machine Torque : Reverse Psychology

06. Tonal Disruption : Have A Peak

07. Tonal Disruption : Mendipsy

08. Aether : Wasted Talent

09. Tonal Disruption : Henbane

 

Review:

 

Well, this is my first first review if you see what I mean! And thankfully its

a goody to start with! I stumbled across this one by complete accident, and I

must say that its a real snake in the grass! I was not expecting anything

like this level of twistedness to emerge from my speakers, and I am putting

this down as my favourite full on release from this year! The tracks are all

pretty rocking, and mental, although production quality is not exactly top

notch, but don't let this put you off, the ideas are AWESOME....

 

 

Onto the tracks themselves then.

 

Track 1 lets you know what you are in for, a hard dark chunk of psychedelia

courtesy of Aether, whom I have never heard of before, and I'm now wondering

wether this guy plays live! Seriously distorted rip into your brain over a

fat bass, and thuddy kick, just how I like it!!!!!! Track 2 is in fairly much

the same vein, more distubing noises and melodies over another overgrown bass

monster. A bit groovier than track 1, but very very twisted, and some real

nice, almost kinda drum and basses pad noises floating around on top. Track 3

A Bit of a marching anthem!!! Things are pretty dark by now, subtley phased

lead melodies and drones and you might like me find that you are not in a very

nice place by now .... However, its an interesting place by all accounts,

so I'm prepared to venture onto track 4.... This is by process, the only

artist I have previously heard of before. And its a croaker! Another

marching anthem, this time harder, with a really really nice kick drum. Very

nice sample at the beggining, and it just keeps on building and building

relentlessly, until the final twisted sounds are released on you!!!!! Track 5

- fairly weak, not much to grab my ear hear. Track 6 - WTF!!!! OK - things

are getting seriously WEIRD now. The easiest way to describe this and the

next tracks are they are like the gathering only less polished, more

underground, twisted innovative nasty and plain outlandish! Track 8 - Aether

slows things down a bit with wasted talent. The mood is still fairly ominous,

and acid techno influences are apparent. Not as hard as the stuff so far, but

still it had me confused and cowering. The last track is track 9. Well. I

wasn't expecting morning trance but hear it is ....sort of..... like

everything else on this CD its WEIRD and twisted, very acidic, and has got a

lovely floaty melody near the end.

 

In conclusion. This is damn good. I can whole heartedly recommend this to

anyone, a 'properly' psychedelic CD, in that old school lovers will get a real

kick out of this, but there is plenty to analyse and get into on repeated

listens, and lots of layers. It is not particularly accessable, and you

should persevere!! Its worth it, however, its not for the fluffy or non

twisted, its pure madness on a CD and I can't wait for the next Elektrik

Orgasm release!!!!!!! 8.5/10

[freak51]

This one was a surprise for me. Serious attempt at multiple layers of trance

that all works together in the the old-school UK spirit, yet it doesn't feel

like a knockoff. Carefully constructed sonic unsanity. 8/10 from me.

[Guest JDPatch]

blast off that samey samey twinkly twinkly trance fog , this stuff is a wake up

call maan . its for parties where people just go to party and not play cool

like posers . Its got a banging rythum and lots of like short and not too

spinny freak out bit like that one 'where isIT WhEre Is iT WhErE iS

IT'boombooboobum 'look inside lookinside... ' etc etc all sort of phased and

detuned TWISTED n cool !